Fall of the Roman Empire/Origins of the Anglo-Saxon People

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Fall of the Roman Empire/Origins of the
Anglo-Saxon People

• Sam Mills, Sam Lutz, Rachel Morrison, Jeung Lee

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Fall of the Roman Empire

• Some say it split into an eastern and western
  empire governed by separate emperors. Causing
  Rome to fall.
• The eastern half became the Byzantine Empire,
  with its capital at Constantinople (modern
  Istanbul).
• The western half remained centered in Italy.
• Many say the Fall of Rome was an ongoing
  process, lasting more than a century.

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Dates

• some who think the Fall of Rome happened at
  Constantinople in A.D. 453.
• Others believe Rome fell around 150CE - 475CE.

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Angle Tribe

• Were one of the Germanic peoples who migrated
  from continental Germany to Britain in the 5th
  century.
• That land was later called Engla-lond (in Old
  English - "Land of the Angles"), thus England.
• Thanks to the major influence of the Angles, the
  people of England are also known as Anglo-Saxons,
  and, of course the English. A region of the
  United Kingdom is known by the name East Anglia.

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Saxon Tribe

• The Saxons were different, they used smaller
  knifes or short swords, as opposed to the use of
  long swords.
•   The Old Saxons remained un-Christianized for
  centuries after the Anglo-Saxons who left for
  Briton were converted.
• Until the Christianization of the Saxons in the
  later part of the eighth century by Franks and
  Anglo-Saxons, it can be found that the Saxons
  were extensively Pantheistic and Pagan. 

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Sources

• http//ancienthistory.about.com/cs/romefallarticle
  s/a/fallofrome.htm
• http//www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Angle
  _tribe/
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